Urban Books
Urban Books
Street stories from the Kreme world — available now on Kindle.
Concrete Roses: The Foundation
Freedom has a price. Redemption has enemies.
Fresh out of prison, Diego "Dice" Martinez vows to go straight — building Concrete Roses, a streetwear empire born from his prison sketches. But his brother steals his cash, a thief empties his mattress, and one bad night puts a gun to his head and lands him back in cuffs. Facing five more years inside, Diego's only weapon is his art: barbed-wire roses, shattered chains, "Rise From Ruins." Only Keisha, a nurse with scars of her own, believes his story enough to testify.
He walks free. He builds an empire. But when a shipping label surfaces tied to the kingpin he thought he'd escaped, Diego learns his legacy is built on poison roots — and the thorns aren't just part of the design anymore.
How To Kill Someone You Love
When gentrification meets a butcher's blade, one hood will run red.
Barber Darius King guards Brighton Heights with a razor and a shadowed past. Community firebrand Maya Johnson fights developers with protest signs and righteous fury. When a brutal slasher dubbed "The Butcher" starts carving up their neighborhood, the two collide in a storm of streetwise survival and explosive chemistry — as a brother thought dead returns as a nightmare, and gentrification turns into blood sport.
Darius faces the ultimate choice: protect the woman who cracked his armor, or become the monster needed to destroy his own flesh and blood. In this hood, love bleeds as hard as it fights.